While Article 108 specifies that the election shall be called by the President “no later than 40 days before the expiry of the authority of Sakrebulo”, a transitional provision inserted in the Code specifies in Article 1291, that “Elections of a representative body of local self-government – Sakrebulo – shall be called by the Georgian president no later than 40 days before the elections”. This provision left an extraordinary discretion to the President of Georgia in setting the date of the 2006 local elections.
